Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Carla Gates holding a picture of her husband Eugene Gates Jr., a 36 year veteran of the #USPS #USA #Postal Service, who died last year delivering mail when the heat index was 113 degrees Fahrenheit

The USPS disciplined Eugene weeks before he died for taking too long on his route in the heat wave. Carla found out later #Heat Illness Prevention training he should have received was falsified by postal management

#climatechange #climatecrisis #globalwarming #dallas #texas

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/widow-of-usps-worker-who-died-of-heat-related-illness-says-not-enough-is-done-to-keep-workers-safe/

"We need to initiate discussions as soon as possible. With space debris, it took us 20 or 30 years to define a solution. With [the satellite air pollution] problem, if we move on the same kind of timescale, it might be too late."

https://www.space.com/montreal-protocol-satellites-air-pollution

#Satellites #Space #Geoengineering #MontrealProtocol #Environment #SpaceSustainability #Aerosols

For every $100 undocumented immigrants pay in federal taxes, only $1 is spent on them. Far from “leeching”, immigrants are a massive boost to our economy.

MAGAs blame immigrants for FEMAs budget shortfall to detract from their own cruelty & incompetence
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/immigrants-are-not-why-fema-lacks

In a controversial move, Aurora bought up a lot of land that will periodically dry up thousands of acres of farmland.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/10/03/lower-arkansas-river-water-districts-aurora-talks-over-controversial-farm-water-purchase/

#LizCheney reviewed the federal election case against #Trump, including the new details that were unsealed Thurs, including Trump’s nonchalance when he was implored to ensure #MikePence’s safety: “#SoWhat?” Trump said.

“We have a responsibility, all of us, to remind people that our institutions don’t defend themselves,” Cheney tells the crowd. “#WeThePeople defend our institutions.”

#law #WeAreNotGoingBack
#freedom #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

I was in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Korea last month--packing 31 talks, panels, meetings and more into the trip, to make every ounce of carbon count.*

Asia is home to 60% of the world’s population and many there are leading on climate solutions, from renewable energy to impact investing to eliminating food waste. But with a large coastal population, it’s also highly vulnerable to climate impacts such as Typhoon Yagi.

Read more from this week's newsletter: https://www.talkingclimate.ca/p/green-energy-and-floods-on-the-rise

7/ Liz Cheney: "Our institutions also held because of VP Mike Pence, who refused to violate his oath to the constitution. And that is why Mike Pence is not Donald Trump's running mate today. Instead, JD Vance is on the ticket."

Via Meidas Touch:

Trump tells people in Michigan that he wants to get rid of overtime pay
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#Trump: I used to hate to pay overtime… I shouldn’t tell you this.. I'd go out and get other people and let them work regular time. I'd say get me 10 other guys, I don't want to have time and a half.

Back online from Asheville so long as batteries hold out and signal holds up.

I donate to World Central Kitchen (hint, hint). Never expected to be eating their food.

In June, we examined #ExxonMobil's claim that it had transformed discarded #plastic into new fruit cups through an “advanced” chemical #recycling technology. We broke down the math to show just how little recycled content winds up in products made this way: https://propub.li/4eYp8RR

This fruit cup example was also cited by the lawsuit.

A new study points to pesticides as a significant factor in wild #bee decline and suggests that alternative pest control methods should be considered. 🐝

Read more ↩️
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-native-bees-requires-rethinking-pest.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

Surprising no one, the recent wave of anti-protest laws is a coordinated effort by monied interests to weaken democracy.

Not surprising, but still…it’s wild how naked this stuff is. The petrochem industry is just straight-up drafting bills for legislators to protect their wealth by suppressing dissent. Not indirectly, not obliquely, not in a POSIWID kind of way — just “let’s email each other about how best to strangle democracy.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby

COVID tests are expensive in the US, and you never know when you'll need them; it's best to always have them on hand and ready to go.

So please don't delay, order your 4 free COVID tests (which will be sent to you through the mail) now: https://covidtests.gov

The EPA is finally moving to clean up a Cass Lake, MN superfund site at the former St. Regis Paper Co. location in Cass Lake, which closed in 1985, which is contaminated with creosote.

Creosote is a wood-treatment chemical that is toxic.

But what is creosote?

https://www.startribune.com/40-years-after-toxic-waste-destroyed-a-cass-lake-neighborhood-epa-promises-action/601148359?utm_source=gift

Creosote is made from the distillation of tar from wood or coal and is used as a wood preservative. If you have seen railroad ties and utility poles, you have seen, and smelled, wood treated with creosote.

It has been used as a wood preservative since the mid-1800s.

The EPA does not consider that creosote as a risk to the general public.

But "Creosote may pose risks to fish and invertebrates when creosote-treated wood is used in aquatic and railroad structures."

The Cass Lake community is abandoned due to creosote pollution at very high concentrations.

https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/creosote

Other sources do indicate that creosote exposure, especially prolonged contact or drinking water contaminated with creosote, can cause health impacts. The health impacts include different forms of cancer. At elevated concentrations irritation & similar are possible.

https://epi.dph.ncdhhs.gov/oee/hace/docs/CreosoteFS.pdf

#Minnesota #EPA #creosote

Vote #Stibnite (Sb2S3) for #Mincup24 ⚒️🧪 because it was the likely source of antimony that literally wrote history.

(The chemical symbol for antimony is ‘Sb’ from ‘stibium’ the Latin for, you guessed it, #stibnite) /1

https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r3m1

It’s omphacite for me! The blueschists in Jenner, California, are evidence that these rocks were once omphacite-bearing eclogites and fingerprints of the subduction zone that once existed here and has had a HUGE influence on California’s geology. Thanks, @silicatefondue

Trump is a 'cockwomble'

“A person, usually male, who is prone to making outrageously stupid statements and-or inappropriate behavior while having a very high opinion of their own wisdom and importance.”

Describes Trump nicely.

Project 2025 plan calls for demolition of NOAA and National Weather Service

https://law.stanford.edu/press/project-2025-plan-calls-for-demolition-of-noaa-and-national-weather-service/

Love it. Harris quoted FDR in her speech to The Economic Club of Pittsburgh, saying she plans to champion "bold, persistent experimentation." Here's some background on the speech at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta where FDR coined that phrase. https://source.oglethorpe.edu/2012/05/22/remembering-fdrs-commencement-speech-at-oglethorpe/